Heidi Montag-Pratt has been reportedly spirited off to hospital from the set of her Costa Rican-based reality TV show, I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here.

According to media reports, the female half of the Hollywood creature recently dubbed Speidi (IE: herself and husband Spencer Pratt) has fallen ill on the jungle location and had to be taken by ambulance to receive treatment for what has been called a "stomach infection."

Her husband was, of course, by her side. Where he always is.

The pair have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons since landing on the reality show in which D-list celebrities are supposed to sit in the jungle and be exposed to 'challenges', with a view to the last person left winning a boatload of cash for their favourite charity.

But the Pratts have so angered viewers that the Red Cross, who had been listed as Spencer's charity recipient if he won, have asked to be removed from any connection with the MTV's The Hills co-star.

In the first week on the show, Pratt and his wife abandoned the set three times, each time coming back and claiming "the devil" made them leave. They've claimed they are "the most famous people in the world," that the other celebrities on the show are so low in worth that they "lessen our celebrity," Spencer then yelled, "I don't volunteer, I get paid!" as he roared off in a production car.

And if that's not enough, Spencer took to physically assaulting a female contestant, slapping a bottle of water out of her hand when she removed the label from a hair product that Heidi has been continually trying to 'accidentally' promote on the show (nary a frame of footage has been seen that doesn't include Heidi spraying someone's head).

The remaining contestants, including former NBA basketballer John Salley, actor Lou Diamond Phillips, former wrestler Torrie Wilson, former model Janice Dickinson, Daniel and Stephen Baldwin, VH1 comediennes Frangelina, and Patti Blagojevich, wife of disgraced, impeached and indicted Chicago Governor Rod, have seemingly had enough of the California rich kids and are split over whether they should be allowed back.

Meanwhile, producers of the show also lost patience with the pair, insisting they spend the night in a room filled with spiders, cockroaches, snakes, rats and bats to prove their contrition.

“They are everything that’s wrong with America,” said Paul Telgedy, executive vice president of alternative programming for NBC in a statement. “They are insincere, lazy, entitled and they claim the devil has possessed them.”

“What they don’t realize is that they are now going to be examined and their value system utterly deconstructed. They are going to spend the night somewhere in isolation and guarded with lots of surprises… These people really are going to bare their souls.”

It is unknown whether Heidi's trip to the ER has anything to do with the challenge, but when TV network executives begin talking about how they're going to "deconstruct" you, hospital may be the least of your worries.

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